Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine : Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China

ISBN-13: 9780415602532 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 288 str.

Marta Hanson

Opis

This work is the biography of a Chinese disease. Born in antiquity and reaching maturity during the epidemics that swept China during the 17th-century collapse of the Ming dynasty, the ancient notion of wenbing 'Warm diseases' continued to play a role even in the response of traditional Chinese medicine to the outbreak of SARS in 2002.

Spis treści

Part 1: Foundation and Inheritances  1. Medical History in Three Themes  2. A Deep History of the Chinese Geographic Imagination: The Five Regions, Northwest-Southeast, and the Southern Shift  Part 2: New Ming Medical Boundaries  3: The Geographic Imagination in Ming Medicine: Northern Purgatives, Southern Restoratives, and Conceptions of North and South  4. Ming Medical Frontiers: Diseases of the Far South, New Conceptions of Contagion  5. Ming Medical Scepticism: Epidemiological Crisis, Cosmological Criticism  Part 3: Early-Modern and Modern Medical Transformations  6. Matters of Place: Epistemological Divergence, Genealogical Division  7. Emergence of Traditions: The Nineteenth-Century Genealogy and Geography of Warm Diseases  Conclusion  New and Old Nosologies in Modern China: From the Geographic Imagination to Distribution of Diseases in China (and back again)

O autorze

Marta Hanson is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, USA. Her research interests are in the history of medicine, disease, and public health in China and the cultural history of Chinese arts of memory.